Foreign Interference in Haiti

Four dates, among others, have marked, in the country’s recent history, the different stages of our growing accustomedness to foreign interference.

The visit of U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Andrew Young to Port-au-Prince in August 1977, under the presidencies of Jimmy Carter and Jean-Claude Duvalier, ushered in the era of interference by suggestion; the first public statements in Haiti by U.S. Ambassador Alvin P. Adams, known as Bourik Chaje, confronted the country with openly assumed interference; the speech delivered before